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21Mar

Compassion: Why Being Gentle to Yourself is the Foundation of Happiness

Julia Bueno

compassion, happiness, kindness, self compassion, selfworth

Therapists

It took me a very long time to work out the difference between being kind to myself and actually being kind to myself. I used to think a long hot bath, a yoga class or a new pair of shoes would suffice to ease a low patch or quieten my noisy inner critic. These gestures may have helped a bit, but they remained just that – actions representing a kindness rather than actions that also felt kind to myself when I did them. I could practise yoga for an hour and still feel bad. I might even feel rubbish at yoga and leave a class feeling even worse. Learning to be truly kind,...
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21Mar

Culture Tip: The Pale Fox at Chisenhale Gallery

Camilla Nicholls

creativity, culture

Soul

The Pale Fox, the first UK solo exhibition of the French, New York-based artist Camille Henrot, is currently on show at Chisenhale Gallery a publicly funded space that garners awards and frequently punches above it’s weight in terms of its programming and outreach work with local communities. On the day I saw the show there had already been a visit by members of the East End Women’s Institute and the gallery was filled with comprehensively tall-haired students from Wimbledon College of Arts. Henrot was awarded the Silver Lion for most promising artist at the Venice...
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21Mar

Talking to a Friend Isn't the Same as Therapy

Welldoing

anxiety, counselling, depression, therapy

Mind

Guardian journalist Zoe Williams and her therapist friend Julia Bueno discuss how therapy works and what it can mean to people
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19Mar

Why We Love Massage

Kate Codrington

complementaryhealth, massage

Body

For as long as humans have walked on two legs we have consoled each other with our hands when injured or sad. The kindly touch from other humans soothes our tears and makes our pain more manageable. Massage therapy is the formalised method of a natural impulse but what a proliferation of styles and modalities there are!
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19Mar

Getting to Know Your Genitals

Monika Dedus

self, sex, therapy, women

Therapists

Psychosexual therapist Monika Dedus explains why many women have a disconnected relationship with their genitals
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18Mar

Yoga Through the Ages

Lucy Greeves

yoga

Body

Yoga for your whole life From baby yoga to chair-based yoga for pensioners: there’s a class for every age and stage of life. When you approach yoga with the right mindset, it’s a truly ‘whole life’ practice that will sustain you throughout the decades. But different times in life call for different types of practice. What suits the hyperactive teenager is no good for the exhausted mother of toddlers, and what engages the retired arthritis-sufferer won’t sustain the driven 30-year-old career-builder. In this article, I want to take a look at yoga through the stages of...
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17Mar

Is Coaching Simply Therapy-Lite?

Nick Brown

coaching, motivation, stress

Mind

How does coaching related to therapy and counselling? Is it simply therapy-lite or more targeted than that?
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14Mar

Culture Tip: The Book of Mormon

Claudine Levy

culture

Soul

The next morning my cheeks are aching. A solid two and a half hours of smiling is hard to beat, and that’s exactly what The Book of Mormon induced in me. From the makers of South Park, the musical charts the progress of Elder Cunningham and Elder Price, two Mormon missionaries sent to Uganda on a divine quest to baptise as many people as possible. It simply feels gloriously unacceptable.  This musical is camper than a Carry On film, and so self-aware it almost hurts. It would be easy to piously reject jokes about rape, racism and Aids, but once you embrace the...
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14Mar

Knitting Therapy

Rin Hamburgh

creativity, stress, therapy, wellbeing

Soul

Knitting therapy: relaxing, stress relieving, meditative, productive.
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13Mar

Enduring Heartache

Sue Cowan-Jenssen

couple, divorce, marriage

Therapists

Getting over heartbreak, whether divorce or a breakup, is difficult and must always take time says therapist Sue Cowan-Jenssen
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